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Juniors and medical Certification?
Do Juniors have to hold any medical certification or have any medical training in your department?
Is it mandatory? Opitional?
Are they certified in First Aid? CPR?
If not, should they be? (I realize that most Jrs aren't allowed to have ANY patient contact) but would it not be useful to know in an emergency, anyway?
Should that certification count as "Extra Credit"?
Basically,~If a Junior/Cadet/Whatever you call them~holds some type of Certification would they be more ready to hold further certification for a career job?
The Red Cross offers training and certification for teens interested in holding Basic First Aid and CPR Certificates.
In my county you can dual enroll with a local community college at 16 and/or 10th grade to get your certification as an EMT-B and EMT-I. My friend was certified in BLS at 17.
Just wondering~
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Permalink Reply by Sarah on
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I am getting certified for First Aid and CPR, because yes, it can be considered "extra credit" and it's a good thing to know if someone you know falls ill, and needs medical treatment ASAP
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Permalink Reply by Bull on
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We dont require it as a Dept, for they are not allowed on Med calls, car accidents. However, I/we would never discourage anyone, regardless of age, on learning or taking any life saving classes.
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Permalink Reply by ashfire on
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I understand Maryland will allow 16 year olds to take EMT. If they have a high school FD cadet program than they have to take EMT as part of the program.
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Permalink Reply by Corey Carr on
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At our department our JR's do have CPR/First Aid, but in WV they are not allowed to have EMT until they are 18. Our JR's do not run medical calls or do they do any extrication or patient related activities.
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Permalink Reply by Phoenix on
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Ashfire
Yes, in MD you can take EMT-B, but you do not have to be part of a HS program. As long as you have a FD affiliation, your parents signature if under the age of 18, and the dept signs the MFRI/MIEMSS form stating you are affiliated with them, you can take the course. Same goes for any MD Fire Rescue Instit.(MFRI) course. My son started as a 1st Responder(state certified)and CPR at 16, he is now 17, FFI/FFII,Haz Mat Ops (Proboard Cert) and is in EMT-B class now.
The small rural FD we belong to will not allow anyone under the age of 18 to ride out on any type of call but I have a feeling this is soon going to change. Like everywhere else our recruitment/retention is in the gutter. He is aware of the dept. reg's but still goes to bi-weekly trainings at the station and takes whatever MFRI classes he can so when he turns 18 he'll be ready to roll. He is committed, I'll give him that.
To my surprise, he wants to be a Paramedic like his geezer old man.
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I did the same when I was a JR. with my CPR/First Aid, and FF1/FF2, I took them all when I was 16-17 and now at 19 I am just as experienced as most on my FD. Its a good thing to take all the classes you can when your a JR that way when your turn 18 you hit the ground running.
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Permalink Reply by Trey Finchum on
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i am certified in first aid and CPR,my dept has a class every couple of years during a training me being a jr and not trained farther then CPR and First aid in the medical field so i make no patient contact on a call but i can use it out side of the dept.
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